Laundry-bag.



Patentad Jan. 7, I902.

G. H. GRANT. 1

LAUNDRY BAG.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT) OFFICE.

GEORGE H. GRANT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AssIe oR' To n. KOHNSTAMM & 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

LAU N DRY-BAG.

SI-ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,854, dated January '7, 1902.

Application filed April 25, 1901. Serial No. 57,466. (No model.)

To 11% whom, it may concern:

Beitknown thatLGEORGE H. GRANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and'State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Laundry-Bags, of which the following is a specification. a

My invention'relates to laundry-bags em ployed principally in public laundries for to keeping different lots of clothes segregated during their passage through a washing-machine.

I'Ieretofore it has'been a common practice, where it was desired to keep one lot of clothes 15 all together and separate from the mass of clothes being washed, to inclose such lot of clothes in a net-like bag, after which the bag would be thrown into the machine among the mass of clothes to be washed and would be passed therewith through the machine. Such a bag, however, would soon have its netting torn at some point, and this would practically destroythe bag. Moreover, when a bag of this kind isemployed the articles therein are apt to become compacted, so that there is not a free passageof the washing fluids among them, and thus poor results are obtained from the washing operation.

My primary object is to provide abag which 0 shall be free from the objections above noted and shall at the same time be of cheap construction.

My invention is illustrated in its preferred construction in the accompanying drawings,

in which Figure 1 represents a broken View of the improved bag; Fig. 2, an enlarged fragmentary view looking at the outside; Fig. 3, a similar view looking atthe inside, and Fig.

0 4 a section taken as indicated at line 4 of Fig. 2.

A represents the bag, having a closed lower end, and preferably formed from canvas or heavy duck material. It is provided at com- 5 paratively close intervals with perforations a, which are preferably supplied with metallic bindings a. As illustrated in Fig. 4, a convenient form of binding or eyelet comprises an annular plate a on the inner side of the bag and provided with an outwardlyprojecting cylindrical portion a and an annular plate a ;on the outer side of the bag, said plates being secured together by flanges, as shown. Bindings or eyelets of this form are now well known, and it is onlynecessary to observe that the outer margins of the annular plates are preferably curved or dished slightly, so as to clench tightly upon the canvas, therebyavoiding any projecting edge which mightinjure the articles beingwashed.

The bag is of course flexible throughout, being totallyunslayed or without braces.

In use the articles to be washed are placed within the bag and the bag closed, as by means of a cord 1), passed through the eyelets at the upper margin. In some instances a bag is temporarily divided into two compartmerits and receives twoseparate lots of articles. During the washing operation the bag is mechanically moved through the washing 7o fluids at such a rate as to cause the fluids to pass readily through it and the articles contained therein. By having the perforations with which the bag is provided securely bound definite ingress and egressopenings are provided, which cannot become closed. Moreover, the close texture of the material of which the bag-is formed contributes to preventthe bag and its contents from becoming compacted, and also the metallic. eyelets 8ocontribute to the efficiency of the bag in aiding in the cleansing operation by frictionall engaging the articles in the bag.

A bag of the improved construction is not I only better adapted to its purpose of enabling the washing operation to be performed to the best advantage, but is economical by reason of the fact that it will withstand the action of thewashing fluids and the rough usageto which it is in practice subjected much longer than the bags which have heretofore been used. It'will be understood that the eyelets may be varied in size and may be placed at varying distances apart without departing frommyinvention. Preferablythe openings 5 are about one-fourth of an inch in diameter and are about an inch and a half apart.

A convenient size for the bag itselfis twenty inches in width and thirty-six inche'sin length.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A new article of manufacture for the purpose set forth, comprising a flexible unbody with metal-bound perforations permitstayed laundry-bag provided throughout its ting'free ingress and egressof' fluid through- In body with bound perforations permitting free out said body, substantially as described. ingress and egress of fluids substantially as 5 described. GEORGE H. GRANT.

2. A new article of manufacture for the In presence of-- purpose set forth, comprising a flexible un- D. W. LEE, stayed laundry-bag provided throughout its ALBERT D. BAOCI. 

